Category: Watercolour

The joy of the new

meldrum life drawing

We had a new male model at Basis this Saturday. His name was Fritz and he was extremely good, he reminded me of Egon Schiele which isn’t a bad thing as I have him as one of my heroes. I am curious to know where he learned to pose as he did, he must have learned his trade abroad, that’s my guess at any rate.
It was the usual frenetic pace at Basis; 1,2 and 3 poses mostly. I think we had one 5 minute pose. A crazy amount of paper gets used but I really feel I am developing a lot during these turbo sessions. All sketches were on A3 paper and I used a charcoal pencil plus charcoal dust applied with my finger.

meldrum life drawing

Tags croquis, figuredrawing, kroki, lifedrawing, meldrum

watercolor Watercolour

My studio – my palette

meldrum studio

Welcome to my studio. It’s important to have a permanent space somewhere at home to paint when the opportunity presents itself. I am lucky my oldest son moved out and I was able to takeover his room. Would I give him his old room back if he came home from overseas? Sure, maybe! 😉

meldrum studio

Sketch watercolor Watercolour

From my sketchbook

I am having a lot of fun playing with light and shadow right now. These two photos show a little of the technique I use. It’s sketched on Moleskin watercolour paper which really sucks because it doesn’t if you know what I mean. It doesn’t matter though, I use the sketchbook for learning porpoises.

Today, I cycled around Stockholm for hours taking pictures of buildings in the autumn sunlight. I think the more technique you learn the more interesting watercolour becomes. I am totally fascinated by it.

Tags akvarell, aquarelle, Sketch, sketchbook, skiss, Stockholm, stockhom, watercolor, Watercolour

Sketch Watercolour

Stortorget puzzle.

Stortorget, Stockholm

The name of the square is called Stortorget, the big square. Not much imagination was used in giving it a name.
Anyway, I am trying to find a way of painting it. I have used a typical tourist picture as reference and I have tried to make it interesting from a watercolour point of view. It’s a sketch, so it has lots of faults but I think I am moving in the right direction, even if it is painfully slow.
Looking at it now, I find it is a pity I followed the bright colours of the reference photo, it would have better if the colours were more dampened in tone. Yeah, yeah, the journey of improvement continues…

Watercolour sketchbook Saunders Waterford 28 x 19.

Stortorget, Stockholm

Tags akvarell, aquarelle, gamlastan, oldtown, Sketch, square, Stockholm, stortorget, watercolor, Watercolour

Lunch Sketch Sketch Watercolour

Trying to loosen up.

Gamla Stan

Buildings are a bunch of boxes, straight lines and a few curves, rigid things that demand to be stiff and upright. I am trying to create an impression of what I see – to this point I have failed every time. I enjoy the challenge though, trying to find what is missing.

Tags akvarell, aquarelle, gamlastan, Sketch, Stockholm, watercolor, Watercolour

Sketch Video Watercolour

Filming the process with a GoPro

Post author By meldrum
Post date 2017/10/09
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stockholm sketch by meldrum

Sunday was a rainy day here in Stockholm so I stayed in my studio and played with my GoPro camera. I filmed myself painting a sketch in my Moleskin journal. I have an ambition to publish films of my painting process to help others learn from the knowledge that I have gained since I started in 2012. I need to learn how to edit film, next weeks project I guess.

Hopefully I have something to show real soon…

Tags akvarell, aquarelle, gopro, Sketch, video, watercolor, Watercolour

museum Museums Watercolour

Life is good

Post author By meldrum
Post date 2017/10/07
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Meldrum with "Outside Galleri T"

Cerold Johansson who is responsible for art acquisition at the Nordic Watercolour Museum has bought one of my paintings! It arrived safely today with the glass still intact. To say that I am happy would be a bit of an understatement ?

https://www.akvarellmuseet.org/
https://www.akvarellmuseet.org/en/about-the-museum

Tags akvarell, aquarelle, art, museet, museum, Nordiska Akvarellmuseet, nordiskaakvarellmuseet, skärhamn, watercolor, Watercolour

Watercolour

A Proud Salamanca Moment

ECWS - Salamanca

I am proud to have been choosen by the Nordic Watercolour Society to particapate in the 20th ECWS* exhibition in Salamanca, Spain. The exhibition continues until the 27th of October 2017.

Thanks to Peter Reuterberg for the photographs.

*European Confederation of Watercolour Societies

ECWS – Salamanca

Tags akvarell, aquarelle, ecws, exhibition, nordiska akvarellsällskapet, salamanca, spain, watercolor, Watercolour

Watercolour

Autumn has arrived

Autumn archipelago by meldrum

This is a larger version of a painting I did the other week, click here to see that one. It is a challenge to paint larger formats, this watercolour is 70 x 50 cm and painted on Arches rough paper. I added a touch of autumn as the trees outside my window have wonderful colours right now. I am happy enough with the painting, I completed 70% of it and became scared, I think this is a common problem for watercolourists. It is so easy to screw the whole thing up. It’s a real challenge to stay loose and free to the end.

Click image below for full sized watercolour

Tags akvarell, aquarelle, archipelago, autumn, host, skärgård, Stockholm, watercolor, Watercolour